Northwest ISD Navigator Magazine October 2017 | Page 7

The features Mrs. Webber is most looking forward to are the
school’s collaboration abilities. Mrs. Webber and district secondary curriculum officials are
planning everything else that makes a school what it is.
Adams, like Wilson, includes collaboration spaces for students
to work together on assignments that may require group
efforts outside of a typical classroom structure. Additionally,
the school has connectable classrooms, where teachers can
work together for a lesson by moving partitions to create a
larger learning area – a feature
that may come in handy for
special events. Part of that planning includes meeting with a committee to
provide suggestions for colors and a school mascot, which
will then be voted on by area students who may attend
the school. Then, in the early-to-mid spring, attendance
boundaries will be drawn to populate the school’s roughly
1,000 students across
sixth, seventh and
eighth grades.
“That’s perhaps the most exciting
thing about this design, because
my goal for the culture of Adams
is to focus on collaboration
and working together,” Mrs.
Webber said. “Our school will
value differentiated learning,
which means respecting the
fact that sometimes learning
happens in a quiet classroom, but
sometimes it happens by working
with classmates in an area you can be a little louder. These
collaboration spaces, located in our hallways, provides ample
room for students to come together and work in that kind of
environment.” Northwest ISD annually
adds more than 1,000
new students, and more
than 23,000 students
currently call the district
home. As one of the
state’s fastest-growing
districts, schools
are constantly being
planned, with principals
such as Mrs. Webber
planning their way through the process. For her, that’s part of
the exhilaration of founding a campus, but she’s ready for her
own students again.
About 200 construction workers are at the Adams Middle
School site on any given day to ensure the school meets its
scheduled August opening. As the physical work goes on,
“I’m ready for a building full of kids,” she said. “We’re going
to be a focal point of the community, and I can’t wait to work
with our community and our neighbors at Eaton
and Schluter.” n
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